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Page 13
... master of the coffee - house , which he had frequented for the last five - and - twenty years , ) but not attaining the meridian of its animation till evening brought on the hour of tea and visiting . The simultaneous sound of his well ...
... master of the coffee - house , which he had frequented for the last five - and - twenty years , ) but not attaining the meridian of its animation till evening brought on the hour of tea and visiting . The simultaneous sound of his well ...
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... Master of Arts . Indeed I do not think I am much unlike that respectable char- acter . I have seen your dim - eyed vergers , and bed- makers in spectacles , drop a bow or a curtsy , as I pass , wisely mistaking me for something of the ...
... Master of Arts . Indeed I do not think I am much unlike that respectable char- acter . I have seen your dim - eyed vergers , and bed- makers in spectacles , drop a bow or a curtsy , as I pass , wisely mistaking me for something of the ...
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... masters , or worse tyranny of the monitors . The oppressions of these young brutes are heart - sickening to call to recollection . I have been called out of my bed , and waked for the purpose , in the coldest winter nights and this not ...
... masters , or worse tyranny of the monitors . The oppressions of these young brutes are heart - sickening to call to recollection . I have been called out of my bed , and waked for the purpose , in the coldest winter nights and this not ...
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... Master ; but the Rev. Matthew Field presided over that portion of the apart- ment of which I had the good fortune to be a member . We lived a life as careless as birds . We talked and did just what we pleased , and nobody molested us ...
... Master ; but the Rev. Matthew Field presided over that portion of the apart- ment of which I had the good fortune to be a member . We lived a life as careless as birds . We talked and did just what we pleased , and nobody molested us ...
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... Master , and then , with Sardonic grin , observe to one of his upper boys " how neat and fresh the twigs looked . " While his pale students were battering their brains over Xenophon and Plato , with a silence as deep as that enjoined by ...
... Master , and then , with Sardonic grin , observe to one of his upper boys " how neat and fresh the twigs looked . " While his pale students were battering their brains over Xenophon and Plato , with a silence as deep as that enjoined by ...
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